Brownies Painting Badge - Step 4

The whole troop participated in an exploration of painting without the use of paintbrushes.  Each girl made two paintings.  They utilized:  tin cans, yard, Q-tips, and cotton balls in place of paintbrushes.

For the first painting, I had them them dot primary colors of paint on their paper and roll the tin can across to spread the paint along the paper.  I really wanted them to be able to see the ridges from the cans on the painting when it dried.  For the second painting, they could create anything they wanted using the other household objects.

Here are their masterpieces:

I think the paintings were supposed to be abstract for the most part.  One of the Daisies said that she was making an Easter egg (the third painting).  A Brownie said that her painting (the bottom one) was supposed to be the Truffula Tree forest from The Lorax.

I only had to spend $2.38 for the project!  I already had paint, most of the household objects, and construction paper.  I only had to buy the cotton balls and two pieces of poster board from Dollar Tree!

They liked the paint covered tin cans and intended to keep them as pencil holders.  However, the water color paint flaked off and made a mess all over the table where I was letting everything dry.  We will have to figure out another type of paint that would work better for sticking to tin cans another time.

Thanks for reading!

 ~Vanessa